• Addresses
• Almanac
• Books Online
• Bookstores
• Bus Schedules
• Census Data
• Citing Sources
• Dictionaries
• Driving Directions
• Maps
• Parliamentary Procedure
• Puzzles
• Reference Sources
• Reverse Directories
• Statistics
• Statistics, International
• Time
• Transportation
• Tutorials
• Weather
• Zip Codes

Addresses

• Switchboard - Contains phone numbers, street addresses, Internet company listings, yellow pages, and toll free numbers.

Almanacs

• Information Please - "Provides easy-to-use reference materials on just about every subject, with millions of facts, plus definitions, articles, photographs, maps, lists and tables." (As stated at their web site).

Books Online

• Bartleby.com - Online versions of a variety of reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction books.
• Learn Out Loud. - audio books
• Metronet E-Book Project - Links to web sites that provide access to full-text books online.
• The Online Books Page - The index includes more than 20,000 English works in various formats. All items are free for personal, noncommercial use. You can: Search our Listings by Author and Title; Browse Our New Listings; Browse by Author; Browse by Title; Browse by Subject; Browse serial archives

Bookstores

• alibris - Used and new books, movies, and music, from many sellers.
• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble
• Bates Bookstore
• Borders - Tacoma outlet of national chain.
• Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Inc. - Tacoma outlet of national chain.
• King's Books - Local source of new and used books; frequent community events.
• Meta:Books - In downtown Tacoma.

Bus Schedules -- See Transportation

Census Data

• American Fact Finder - Searchable database of Census 2000 statistics. Helpful in writing grants and reports. Entering an address in the "Advanced Geography Selection" at  provides a menu to choose data including census tract, block and congressional district. Also shows the census tract, block and congressional district numbers for that address.
• Census 2000: State & County Quick Facts Easy access to state and county facts about people, businesses and geography from the 2000 Census.

Citing Sources

• EasyBib.com - An online source for creating an MLA-style bibliography.
• Microsoft Word 2007 - Instructions for creating a biliography with Word 2007.
• Research and Documentation Online - Explanations and many model citations, from Diana Hacker. 
• Son of Citation Machine - Fill in the blanks, for citations in MLA or APA style.
• Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). 
• WorldCat  - Generates citations to books, articles, videos, etc., in choice of styles.

Dictionaries

• Acronym Finder - Dictionary of acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations. Results can be sorted by discipline.
• Dictionary.com - Features a variety of different types of dictionaries.
• Language Dictionaries - Links to foreign language dictionaries.
• Lexicool.com - Links to “over 3500 bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet.” Includes many specialized subject dictionaries.
• PROMTs Online Translator - Translates text, web pages and email from one language into another (includes English, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian). Includes online keyboards for inputting non-English characters.
• Rustran.com: Stream Translation Technologies - English to Russian and Russian to English dictionary and online translator.
• Romanian/English translation dictionaries:
• Free Online English<>Romanian Dictionary
• Romanian-English Dictionary
• English-Romanian-Dictionary
• Dictionar Roman Englez
• Specialty Dictionaries - Links to dictionaries on specialized topics.
• Travelangs Foreign Languages for Travelers
• Vdict.com - Vietnamese dictionaries
• YourDictionary - Chinese dictionaries.

Driving Directions

• Earth Maps
• Map Quest

Maps

• Google Maps - Scrollable maps.  Search for an address, a city, etc.  Satellite views and ravel directions available.
• MapMachine  - National Geographic's online atlas. 
• MapQuest  This site provides online mapping and driving directions.
• Schmap: Beyond the Map

Parliamentary Procedure

• Procedure Parliamentary Procedure by John A. Cagle - Parliamentary procedure based on Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (1990 edition) as presented by Dr. John A Cagle, Professor of Communication at California State University in Fresno.

Puzzles

• Brain Food - Logic puzzles, word puzzles, and more.
• Internet Coach Puzzle Center - Make your own puzzles.
• Puzzle maker - Discovery Channel Schools web site for creating puzzles that can be printed out using your own word lists. Puzzle types include: "Word Search", "Criss -Cross", "Cryptograms", "Word Search with a Hidden Message," "Number Blocks," "Double Puzzle," and "Letter Tiles."

Reference Sources – (See also Dictionaries; Reverse Directories)

• Bartleby.com - Search dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, usage guides, selected stories, essays, poems, and more.
• HowStuffWorks - Clear explanations of the workings of rainbows, guitars, locks, diesel engines, and "you name it."
• Refdesk.com - Claims to be "the single best source for facts on the Net."

Reverse Directories

• Reverse Directory - Reverse directory for phone numbers, street addresses and phone number to words.

Statistics (See also Census Data; Statistics, International)

• Statistical Abstract of the United States - "Collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States."

Statistics, International

• Community Indicators -- Statistics on health, housing, employment, safety, etc. in Pierce County.
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - In the “Find” box, on the left side of the page, click on “Statistics.”

Time

• U.S. Time Web - Shows the official U.S. time for the different time zones around the world.

Transportation (See also Maps)

• Pierce Transit's Online Trip Planner
• RideshareOnline.com - This site helps users find a carpool or vanpool, for commuting to school, work, or a special event.
• Statewide Traveler Information - Travel alerts and photos of current conditions, from the Washington State Dept. of Transportation.

Tutorials (see also Instruction)

Weather

• The Weather Channel
• The Weather Underground

Zip Codes

• U.S. Postal Service - Look up zip codes by city.